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1st LD: FBI chief Comey says concealing Clinton's newly-found emails before elections would be "catastrophic"

Xinhua, May 3, 2017 Adjust font size:

FBI director James Comey on Wednesday fiercely defended his decision to announce new probe into then Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's newly-found emails before 2016 U.S. elections, saying he was facing a hard choice of "really bad or catastrophic" actions and he couldn't conceal.

"Concealment in my view would have been catastrophic," he said.

Comey made remarks when testifying before the U.S. bipartisan Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the probes into both Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server and the accused Russian meddling in the presidential election.

He also said he felt "mildly nauseous" to think he affected the final results of elections.

"It was a hard choice" but he had no other option, said Comey, "I couldn't conceal that." Endit